Elizabeth N. Lightfoot ^{1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Green Township, Wayne, OH on 20 July 1850. ⁵

1850 US Census
Page 186B, Family 205
Green Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Elizabeth Lightfoot..6..OH

(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Iowa Township, Cedar County, IA on 12 July 1860. ⁶

1860 US Census
Page 145-146, Family 1007
Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa
Elizabeth Lightfoot..16..OH

(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Iowa Township, Cedar County, IA on 23 August 1870. ⁷

1870 US Census
Page 2, Family 13
Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa
Elizabeth Burnett..26..OH..Keeping House

(Living with husband.)
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• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Gore Township, Sumner, KS on 8 June 1880. ²

1880 US Census
Page 6B, District 189, Family 48, Roll 398
Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas
Elizabeth Burnett..Wife..36..OH..Keeping House

(Living with husband and 2 daughters.)
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Gore Township, Sumner, KS on 9 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 4A, District 329, Family 71
Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas
Farm owned, with mortgage
Married 32 years
Elizabeth Burnett..Wife..Feb 1844..56..OH..2/2

(Living with husband and daughter, Ruhama.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Unknown newspaper in May 1907 in Mulvane, KS.

⁹ Mrs. T. B. Burnett passed away at her home southeast of town Tuesday morning. Being quite unexpected, it was a great shock to all of us. She, in company with Mrs. Harry Broughton, called on Mrs. Kessinger Friday afternoon and enjoyed a pleasant visit. She was taken ill that night and the family physician, Dr. Michener, was called. Inasmuch as she was subject to such attacks for the past few years, it was thought that she would so on be up again. More serious symptoms developed Tuesday morning and before her friends could realize it, she was dead.

Elizabeth Lightfoot, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 19, 1844. With her parents, she moved to Cedar County, Iowa in 1856. She was married to T. B. Burnett, October 16, 1868. They resided on a farm in that locality until 1876 when they moved to southern Kansas and established the present home. Two daughters, Alice LaVerne and Ester Ruhama were born to this union, and they with their families unite with their father, in sorrow for the gentle and loving mother and faithful wife. In early life she united with the Presbyterian church and exemplified in her life the spirit of the Master.

The funeral was conducted in the home, Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by the writer, attended by a very large assemblage of neighbors and friends. Interment took place in Mulvane cemetery. Members of the family present at the funeral home were the husband and daughters, Mrs. John Newton and family of this place, and Mrs. Charley Foudray and family of Beaumont; a brother, Mr. Luke Lightfoot, of Guthrie, Oklahoma; and two sisters, Mrs. Ida Williams and daughter, Bessie, of Eddy, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Mollie Farnsworth and husband of Arkansas City.

(Source: unknown newspaper; taken from a photocopy in the Lightfoot-Arnsberger-Wymer Families Collection of Papers in the possession of Brian Lightfoot. It apparently was published in the Mulvane, Kansas newspaper but does not provide the date or actual name of the newspaper.)

(Source: Unknown newspaper, Mulvane, KS, May 1907)
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• She was buried on 16 May 1907 in the Mulvane Cemetery in Mulvane, KS.

The gravestone is a large very light gray granite over 2' wide and 4' high all of which sits on top of a concrete base. The name "Burnett" is carved in large letters at the base and there is a carved open book/Bible on the top which reads "At Rest". The inscription on the face reads "Elizabeth, wife of Thomas B. Burnett, Feb 19, 1844, May 14, 1907, Gone But Not Forgotten".

Find A Grave Memorial 32182158
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Elizabeth married Thomas B. Burnett, son of Isaac Burnett and Eliza Nixon, on 15 October 1868 in Iowa City, IA.^{1 2 3 4} (Thomas B. Burnett was born on 9 February 1840 in , Wayne County, OH,^{2 3 7 10 11 12} died on 17 December 1922 in Mulvane, KS ^{4 11} and was buried on 18 December 1922 in Mulvane Cemetery, Mulvane, KS ¹¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Image: 15 October 1868, in Iowa City, IA. ¹

• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Iowa Township, Cedar County, IA on 23 August 1870. ⁷

1870 US Census
Page 2, Family 13
Iowa Township, Cedar County, Iowa
Thomas S. Burnett..30..OH..Farmer
Elizabeth Burnett..26..OH..Keeping House
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• They appeared on the 1880 US Census in Gore Township, Sumner, KS on 8 June 1880. ²

1880 US Census
Page 6B, District 189, Family 48, Roll 398
Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas
T. B. Burnett..Head..40..OH..Farmer
Elizabeth Burnett..Wife..36..OH..Keeping House
Alice Burnett..Daughter..5..IA
Ester Burnett..Daughter..3..KS
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• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Gore Township, Sumner, KS on 9 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 4A, District 329, Family 71
Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas
Farm owned, with mortgage
Married 32 years
Thomas B. Burnett..Head...Feb 1840..60..OH..Farmer
Elizabeth Burnett..Wife..Feb 1844..56..OH..2/2
Hette R. Burnett..Daughter..Apr 1877..23..KS
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  Marriage Notes:

Name: Thomas B. Burnett
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 15 Oct 1868
Event Place: Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth M. Lightfoot
Spouse's Gender: Female

Citing this Record
"Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJVX-D7C : 10 February 2018), Thomas B. Burnett and Elizabeth M. Lightfoot, 15 Oct 1868, Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,685,428.
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In June, 1876 Thomas B. Burnett settled in Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas on 160 acres he had purchased two miles southeast of Littleton. The trip from his former home in Pee Dee, Iowa was made in two covered wagons accompanied by his wife Elizabeth and twenty month old daughter Alice Laverne, his wife's sister, Mary Alice Lightfoot, and an Iowa neighbor who drove one wagon. Their journey was interrupted for a few days at Eldorado County, Kansas when one of the mares gave birth to a colt. There was a dugout on the property when Burnett acquired it but when the family arrived they discovered the roof had fallen in, so until a house could be built they lived in a tent in the yard of Valentine Harwood whose farm was across the road. Another daughter Ruhama Esther, was born 25 Apr 1877.

(Source: Phyllis Harrison and Lois Storey; as published in "Mulvane - City of the Valley, 1879-1977", page 79; Farber, Madeline K. Farber, Editor; published by the Mulvane Historical Society)
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To answer a few of your questions--Why they came to Kansas? They were looking for a warmer climate. At that time there was a lot of land available in Kansas and the general trend seemed to be to move from PA to IL or IA then on to MO and KS. I sometimes think my great grandfather Burnett had itchy feet as he and Luke Lightfoot went on to Arkansas a few years later looking for a better place to grow fruit. I think they lived there only a year and came back to Kansas. Grandpa Burnett did have a big orchard on his farm. Even though he died before I was born there were still lots of trees left. I can remember the peach and pear trees but they all perished during the Dirty Thirties except a couple of pear trees near the house. My grandparents lived on his farm until sometime in the 50's. After Grandpa Foudray died my mother's sister and her husband moved in to be with Granny. As for T.B's talents, I don't think there was much he couldn't do. He even made his own overalls. I have inherited a secretary he made in 1876. It's a pretty primitive piece of furniture but I treasure it.

(Source: Email from Phyllis Storey-Harrison, 1 Jun 2004)
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The Burnett farm remained in the family until just a few years ago. My grandmother sold it to one of my uncles on my dad's side of the house and they lived there, tore down the old house and built a new one, their son tore down the old barn, so there's nothing original left unless the windmill is still standing. The buildings were deteriorating and not needed. Today instead of a barn people need a machine shed and grain storage. They don't milk cows or raise chickens and pigs like we did 50 years ago. When I was growing up there was a shed where the cows were milked and feed was stored in half of it, by the windmill was a pig shed and a pen full of pigs and the chicken house had a bunch of old hens scratching and cackling. I think Granny's last old hen died of old age in the late 50's.

Both my parents grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same country school that had been attended by both their mothers and where I also went in later years. This is the school that was organized the year after my grandmother (Alice Laverne Burnett) started to school in town where her Uncle Luke Lightfoot was teaching. My dad's mother lived on the farm adjoining the Burnett farm. This was the Darnell property which had a stage stop on it. The old barn was still there until in the 70's when it was burned along with several empty houses and the school. The farms had one by one been left without an occupant in the house and the ground was worked by renters who brought in large equipment and farmed several places. For a time some of the houses were rented, mostly to Boeing workers or air base personnel with families. Anyhow one such family moved in to the neighborhood with a couple of undisciplined teenagers and they burned the old houses one by one, including the school and stage barn before they got caught.

TB Burnett divided his farm between the two girls. Verne got the part where the house stood and Hette got more acreage with no improvements. She and her husband John Newton put up a nice house and barn just across the road from the school house and lived there until he died when I was about 3 years old. My folks lived less than half mile on up the road. By that time my other grandparents had moved into Mulvane but I had cousins within the same mile section as the Burnett farm. I think there was some part of our family in that school from the time it was built until its last year, when the son of one of my cousins went there. One year when I attended there were over 25 students. Its last year had 4. I went there all 8 years; 7 of them I had the same teacher. I think our smallest attendance during that time usually had at least one in each grade, with 2 or mo re in some.

One of the story's that came down through the years is that my dad got mad and ran away from home when just a tad. He told his folks he was going to go live with Charlie Foudray, which was my mother's folks. I'm sure he didn't get to stay very long but I can see his point.

Granny Foudray was a good cook and kept a clean house. Conditions at his house left much to be desired with 3 kids older and 3 girls younger by the time he was 5, and at the Foudray house there was only my mother.

In some of the things I read about Daniel Lightfoot you questioned his birthday being in June or January. On a family record which appears to be in Elizabeth Lightfoot's hand writing the date 17 Jun 1811 is shown.

One thing that confuses me is that in our references to Daniel Lightfoot's father he is called Jacob. Since Susannah's father was Jacob A., I'm wondering if the name was not passed down in error as I doubt any of my immediate ancestors ever knew him and your records seem to be pretty accurate. My mother's notes say, "We know very little about Grandmother Burnett's ancestors only that her grandparents were Pennsylvania Dutch and lived in the east until some time in the late 18th century when Grandmother and Grandfather Lightfoot came to Kansas -- we have very few dates." I'm not sure when she wrote this but there is 1963 at the top corner of the first page. At that time I was just beginning to take an interest in ancestry and hadn't yet accumulated any data. The first time I was in Salt Lake City I read some of the Pee Dee County History, but on a later visit I couldn't locate the book.

I better shut this down for now. My daughter and I plan to leave in the morning for Branson, MO for the next 4 days so I'll miss our little exchanges. Oh yes, I found another reference to Frank Lightfoot. It was l Sept 1855 (which I think is his birth) but after his name I have "married May" but I have no idea where I got the information. It is something I put down in the past 15 or so years. Have you tried to find him on any Arkansas census?

Phyllis

(Source: Email from Phyllis Storey-Harrison, 8 Jun 2004)
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